Former Kansas senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker, the first woman elected to the Senate from the state, has died aged 94.
Former US Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, a moderate Republican who became the first woman elected to the Senate from Kansas, has died aged 94, according to local reports. Kassebaum Baker died Friday in Topeka, Kansas. She was born in Topeka in 1932 and entered the Senate in 1978, serving until her retirement in 1997.
The daughter of former Kansas governor and 1936 Republican presidential candidate Alf Landon, Kassebaum Baker became a prominent moderate voice in the Republican Party and was known for working across party lines during her four terms in the Senate.
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